Topic – Global Issues

Earth losing half a trillion tons of ice per year

NASA data shows mass melting

Matt Dietrichson, Feb 23, 12.

A University of Colorado at Boulder-led team has used NASA data to calculate the drastic amount of land ice melting on the planet.

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China getting serious about climate change

“City design matters a lot.”

Matt Dietrichson, Jan 13, 12.

With more than one billion people living in its cities by 2030, China is taking action against climate change.

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Parag Khanna

When cities rule the world

Senior research fellow at the New America Foundation & author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, Jan 24, 11.

Cities are humanity's real building blocks.

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